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CONTENTS OF VOL. II. 
CHAPTER I. 
Bridle-road — Wreck — Taupo war-party — The Rev. Octavius Had- 
field — Proofs of his worth as a missionary — Wanganui — The 
process of becoming a store-keeper — The feudal attachment of 
the natives secured by trading — Pig-hunting — Dogs — E Kuru^s 
ardour for the chase — Troublesome natives — Conduct of Mr. 
Matthews, a Missionary Catechist — He is justly reproved by 
E Kuril — Missionary, heathen, and civilized natives — Waitotara 
— Inhospitality — Panic of natives on first seeing a horse — Amaze- 
ment — The country about Wanganui — Climate like the south of 
Spain — Winds — Showers — Lawlessness— Pig-stealing — Den of 
thieves — Wreck of the Sandfly ..... Page 1 
CHAPTER II. 
Appointment of Officers in England — Progress — Shops — Rope- 
makers — Outrages by Rangihaeata — Tapu on the Beach — Com- 
plaint to Police Magistrate — His answer — Neglect of the Cook's 
Strait settlers by Governor Hobson — No tribunals — Effect on 
natives — News from Auckland only through Sydney— Absurd 
nomenclature — Kindness to natives — Of Government — Of the 
colonists — E Puni, a gentleman — Answer of the Governor to the 
Magistrates' address — The Clendon job — Appointments — Fi- 
nance — East Coast of Middle Island — Port Cooper — Public 
meeting — Native found dead — Warepori excites the natives — 
Alarm — Helplessness — Volunteers — Special constables — Impres- 
sions of natives — Disgrace of Mr. Davy — Judge and Attorney- 
General — Distant legislation — Secret calumnies — Defence of 
his choice by Captain Hobson — Ill-treatment of Company's 
settlers . . . . . . . . .22 
CHAPTER III. 
Arrival of the Governor — Public meeting — Undignified landing — 
Empty levee — Mr. George Clarke, Chief Protector of the Abo- 
rigines — Degradation of chiefs — Mr. Clarke's unfounded charge 
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